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The idea behind this is to break the costume down into its major components so people can find what they are looking for more easily. Too many prefixes and it becomes confusing. Too few and it is just too broad.

What are your thoughts on the current list. Do we need to add more?

You will note that you don't see things like chest armor and gauntelts or helmet because those have their own section on the site.

Once we have everything properly labelled, in theory, we could make Boba a single forum. Thoughts?

This is true as far as the threads in said armor and helmet section but would they automatically get a prefix that way? Does the search function use the prefix when searching? Also Im not sure why its not like this but the advanced search doesnt allow you to search a forum.....personally I know you can go into said for and search it...and if you go into a forum click on search forum and then goto advanced from there this function is there...with the prefix option....however the regular old advanced up top doesnt have these options available unless you click on search single content type and I think that may make searching harder IDK if Im overthinking this.

Well since Mike threw me into the mix, I guess I could help out.........

Honestly though I wouldn't mind helping out in the Jango section. When the time comes to start let me know and I will do my part. Hopefully I will find some slow nights at work and be able to work on it.

Prefixes are done really well in the Junkyard on theRPF, because there are filtering links at the top of that sub-forum. Are we going to do that here? Is the intent here to limit prefixes per-forum, i.e. users could only choose helmet-related prefixes in the helmet forum?

re-tagging/prefixing old threads will be a ton of work. Is this more efficient than say, having a Google search widget for the forum? I've never had a problem finding anything on this site using Google.

Rich, my understanding is that prefixes are more easy to manage and more readily visible than vBulletin's tagging system (which I love in theory, but have found to be very messy and virtually useless).

Rich D. said:

Prefixes are done really well in the Junkyard on theRPF, because there are filtering links at the top of that sub-forum. Are we going to do that here?

That is what is driving this. It has worked exceedingly well at the RPF.

Rich D. said:

Is the intent here to limit prefixes per-forum, i.e. users could only choose helmet-related prefixes in the helmet forum?

Yes. Prefixes can be managed in groups and groups of prefixes can be applied to one or more appropriate forums. These prefixes would be forum specific.

Rich D. said:

re-tagging/prefixing old threads will be a ton of work.

It will be a tremendous effort to take care of old content but we can force the use of prefixes for any thread going forward.

Rich D. said:

Is this more efficient than say, having a Google search widget for the forum? I've never had a problem finding anything on this site using Google.

I don't know if it is necessarily more efficient, but it is more accurate. Google's search widget depends on two things; you knowing the exact right phrase to look for, and the people who post up content including that same phrase every time.

This solution doesn't exclude us using the Google search widget and my mind is not set in stone so if you have other thoughts or ideas on how we can handle this in an even better way, please share.

I would offer to help out Mullreel in the Jango section if needed. I am finding myself going back 21 pages looking at the older posts anyway. I like to see how the community got to where it is today and I like all the excitement that costume had back closer to AOTC. Let me know what I can do to help.

Well since Mike threw me into the mix, I guess I could help out.........

Honestly though I wouldn't mind helping out in the Jango section. When the time comes to start let me know and I will do my part. Hopefully I will find some slow nights at work and be able to work on it.

i didn't throw you anywhere! just thinking out loud if you'd come help.

anyway, art, will these prefixes be in a drop down box so mods would be able to click edit on a threads original post and from there open the prefix drop down, select the corresponding one, and then save changes?